.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 302 129
Rank change year-on-year +29 -173 +29
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 567 390 1,940
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 0.99% 2.08%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.67% 5.00% 10.84%
Number of salaries quoted 541 329 1,802
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £38,088
25th Percentile £47,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +16.07% -13.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,900 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £63,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.00% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,496 7,804 17,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.40% 19.87% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,453 5,237 14,525
10th Percentile £40,625 £38,795 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 10 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -4 136 £55,000 -8.33% 54
South East +49 117 £55,000 +10.00% 49
London -66 84 £85,000 +6.25% 48
Midlands +26 82 £55,000 -8.33% 25
East of England +47 75 £67,500 +22.73% 18
North West +15 74 £55,000 -8.33% 31
South West -12 68 £52,500 -12.50% 12
East Midlands +7 42 £55,000 +4.76% 11
North East -9 42 £65,000 +44.44% 11
West Midlands -5 40 £55,000 -8.33% 14
Yorkshire -57 20 £55,000 -8.33% 13
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.41%) IIS
3 4 (0.71%) CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Confluence
4 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Magento
1 2 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 409 (72.13%) Azure
2 123 (21.69%) Azure DevOps
3 85 (14.99%) AWS
4 74 (13.05%) GitHub
5 64 (11.29%) Azure AI
6 59 (10.41%) GitHub Copilot
7 49 (8.64%) Azure Logic Apps
8 46 (8.11%) SaaS
9 40 (7.05%) Power Platform
10 38 (6.70%) Serverless
11 34 (6.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 24 (4.23%) Power Automate
12 24 (4.23%) PowerApps
13 23 (4.06%) Azure Functions
13 23 (4.06%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (3.35%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (3.35%) OneDrive
17 18 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.41%) Internet
2 4 (0.71%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.53%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.35%) Firewall
5 1 (0.18%) AMQP
5 1 (0.18%) Modbus
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (40.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 171 (30.16%) MongoDB
3 146 (25.75%) SQL Server
4 63 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (6.00%) Power BI
6 14 (2.47%) MySQL
6 14 (2.47%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.23%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.06%) Redis
10 5 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.88%) GIS
11 4 (0.71%) NonStop SQL
12 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.35%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (5.11%) Git
2 9 (1.59%) JIRA
3 7 (1.23%) GitLab
4 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.88%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.53%) Vite
6 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.35%) webpack
7 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.18%) MSI
7 1 (0.18%) MSTest
7 1 (0.18%) NUnit
7 1 (0.18%) Selenium
7 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 81 (14.29%) Finance
2 49 (8.64%) Social Skills
3 26 (4.59%) Games
4 24 (4.23%) Advertising
5 19 (3.35%) Retail
6 18 (3.17%) Marketing
7 17 (3.00%) Banking
8 11 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (1.59%) Automotive
10 8 (1.41%) Front Office
10 8 (1.41%) Law
11 7 (1.23%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.06%) Legal
13 5 (0.88%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.88%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.71%) Back Office
14 4 (0.71%) Electronics
14 4 (0.71%) Music Industry
15 3 (0.53%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 445 (78.48%) Developer
2 298 (52.56%) .NET Developer
3 108 (19.05%) Software Developer
4 107 (18.87%) Senior
5 63 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 63 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 53 (9.35%) C# .NET Developer
7 50 (8.82%) Lead
8 47 (8.29%) Full-Stack Developer
8 47 (8.29%) Software Engineer
9 31 (5.47%) Lead Developer
9 31 (5.47%) Senior Software Developer
10 28 (4.94%) .NET Software Developer
11 25 (4.41%) .NET Software Engineer
12 23 (4.06%) Senior Software Engineer
13 22 (3.88%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 21 (3.70%) C# Software Developer
15 20 (3.53%) Azure Developer
16 19 (3.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 18 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 567 (100.00%) .NET
2 283 (49.91%) ASP.NET
3 214 (37.74%) ASP.NET Core
4 136 (23.99%) React
5 131 (23.10%) HTML
6 129 (22.75%) CSS
7 125 (22.05%) Entity Framework
8 113 (19.93%) Blazor
9 106 (18.69%) RESTful
10 100 (17.64%) .NET Framework
11 99 (17.46%) Vue
12 95 (16.75%) AngularJS
13 87 (15.34%) ASP.NET Web API
14 79 (13.93%) Node.js
15 64 (11.29%) ML.NET
16 54 (9.52%) LINQ
17 45 (7.94%) REST
18 39 (6.88%) JSON
19 21 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
20 19 (3.35%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.99%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (3.35%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.29%) Hedge funds
4 13 (2.29%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 11 (1.94%) Sports Betting
6 10 (1.76%) Digital TV
6 10 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.59%) iPhone
7 9 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.59%) Mobile App
8 8 (1.41%) Social Network
9 7 (1.23%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.06%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.06%) Low-Code
11 5 (0.88%) BBC
11 5 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.12%) VMS
2 9 (1.59%) Android
3 8 (1.41%) Windows
4 4 (0.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (53.79%) Full-Stack Development
2 244 (43.03%) Agile
3 171 (30.16%) CI/CD
4 153 (26.98%) DevOps
5 110 (19.40%) Microservices
6 91 (16.05%) Software Engineering
7 87 (15.34%) AI
8 84 (14.81%) Machine Learning
9 78 (13.76%) Multithreading
10 57 (10.05%) OO
11 52 (9.17%) SDLC
12 51 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 46 (8.11%) Analytics
13 46 (8.11%) Containerisation
14 45 (7.94%) User Experience
15 41 (7.23%) MVC
16 40 (7.05%) Business Intelligence
16 40 (7.05%) TDD
17 38 (6.70%) Scrum
18 36 (6.35%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 522 (92.06%) C#
2 329 (58.02%) SQL
3 162 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 134 (23.63%) TypeScript
5 36 (6.35%) PowerShell
6 19 (3.35%) Python
7 11 (1.94%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (1.59%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.88%) Bicep
10 4 (0.71%) Bash
10 4 (0.71%) Java
10 4 (0.71%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.53%) PHP
11 3 (0.53%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.18%) C++
12 1 (0.18%) F#
Qualifications
1 37 (6.53%) Degree
2 18 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.06%) Azure Certification
4 5 (0.88%) AWS Certification
4 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (0.88%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.35%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.17%) QA
2 12 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.35%) GDPR
3 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.35%) ITGC
3 2 (0.35%) SLA
3 2 (0.35%) WCAG
4 1 (0.18%) NCSC
4 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 122 (21.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 115 (20.28%) Kubernetes
2 20 (3.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 296 (52.20%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.88%) Facebook
3 21 (3.70%) Google
4 19 (3.35%) Adobe
5 9 (1.59%) YouTube
6 5 (0.88%) Apple
6 5 (0.88%) Sony
6 5 (0.88%) Yahoo!
7 4 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (0.71%) Workday
8 3 (0.53%) Splunk
9 2 (0.35%) Foundry
9 2 (0.35%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle
9 2 (0.35%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.18%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.18%) Reuters
10 1 (0.18%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.18%) WooCommerce